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0. E. TEALL. PACKAGE. APPLICATION FILED JUNEZI, 1913.

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OLIVER E. TEALL, OF HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOB TO MT. HOLYOKE TISSUE MILLS, 0F HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

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Application filed June 21, 1913.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, OLIVER E. TEALL, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Holyoke, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Packages, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a paper package for toilet paper or towels, or other like articles, and is designed to provide a simple, inexpensive and highly eflicient package from which the sheets can be easily detached one by one.

In forming packages wherein the pack is folded according to the practice heretofore obtained, it has been customary to fold the pack in the center upon a cardboard, or other support, to paste a strip of paper over the sloping upper edges of the pack and to drive a wire then horizontally through the pack, bending its edges up over the inclined ends of the pack.

My invention comprises a method of sup port which eliminates one of the two elements involved in the old practice, doing away with the necessity of the wire, while at the same time supporting the pack in an equally satisfactory, if not a superior, manner.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a cross-section of the package constructed according to my method; and Fig. 2 is an elevation thereof.

The pack, which is represented by a, is folded at its center about the upright (preferably carboard) support 6 provided with an aperture 0 for a supporting hook and also provided with an aperture d substantially in its center. A tape 7 is threaded through channels 76 and Z drilled through each end of the pack, as shown in Fig. 1, the tape passing through the aperture d and Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

Serial No. 775,140.

being supported by the cardboard support at m, as shown in Fig. 1. The tape is thereafter bent back along the upper edges of the pack, as shown at 7' and f, and fastened thereto by an adhesive, and the ends of the tape are thereafter tied, or otherwise fastened together, as shown at h. It will be obvious that this method is one of extreme simplicity and yet the tape f supports the package by hanging over the support Z) at the point m, as shown, and, furthermore, accurately holds down all sheets of the pack, until they are purposely detached, by means of this adhesive connection therewith upon the upper edges of the pack. This adhesive connection, it should be noted, furthermore, prevents the pack from slipping or loosening on its support as the outer sheets thereof are removed.

Having now described my invention, but recognizing that many changes and modifications may be made from the specific forms in which I have chosen here to illustrate it without departing from the scope of the invention, which is more truly bounded and defined by the claims hereto appended, I claim,-

1. A paper package, comprising a pack of sheets of paper folded on itself,'a flexible securing means comprising a closed loop hreaded through the end of the pack and pasted to the ends of the pack.

2. A paper package, comprising a support having an aperture therein, a pack of sheets of paper folded about the support, a flexible securing means comprising a closed loop threaded through the end of the pack, pasted to the ends of the pack and passing through the aperture in the support.

OLIVER E. TEALL.

WVitnesses MINNIE C. HUNTER, SEBASTIAN HUNTER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

